The Undergraduate Research Journal
The Undergraduate Research Journal (URJe) is a multi-disciplinary, refereed annual publication for undergraduate research and creative works. It is managed and published jointly by the Office for Undergraduate Research and the Library at the American University in Cairo.
URJe is committed to showcasing outstanding student work in all subjects, and in a variety of formats – research articles, essays, case studies, reviews, creative writing, etc.
The URJe Editorial Board, consisting of faculty members from different disciplines, reviews all submissions and publishes a selection of works that are highly creative or make an intellectual contribution at a high level of scholarship.
See the Aims and Scope for a complete coverage of the journal.
Current Volume: Volume 9 (2023)
Editorial
Goodbye, Mr. Carter
Stephen Urgola
Research Article
Anti-inflammatory and Antioxidant Effects of Sea Urchin Spine Extract
Dina Magdy El Gamal
Essays
Review Paper: Low Salinity Water Injection for Enhanced Oil Recovery
Mahmoud Ali, Moamen Talaat, and Abd El-Rahman Rashwan
Microplastics in water, their effects on the aquatic ecosystem and human public health, and the proposed solutions
Mohanad Abouserie
Bedouins in Sinai and Petra: Nationalism and Pre-development Identity
Youssef A. Mansour
Is Nietzscheanism an Extension of Kant’s Moral Philosophy? A Nietzschean-Kantian Dialectic for Morality
Sami Shaheen
Grameen Method of Microfinance as a Poverty-Alleviation Tool: Short and Long-Term Effects on Women’s Empowerment in Egypt
Zeina M. Shalaby
FYRE Place
The 2011 Somalia Famine
Aya Ahmed